Saving?
How can they say that "saving of some £85 million over 25 years" when they'll have to go through the same process and spend more money when the next version of Windows comes out and the next etc?
Amalgamation of four separate authorities, 270 offices that needed to be reduced into four hubs and 70 outlying offices, and many constraints including a host of governmental regulations, were among the challenges facing Wiltshire Council as it planned to roll out Microsoft Windows 7, which was at the core of its workplace …
"Amalgamation of four separate authorities, 270 offices ... reduced into four hubs..." Was this primarily a Windows 7 rollout, or a business restructuring with Windows 7 thrown in? I think the distinction is critical to the argument for its results. Can it really be said that moving to Windows 7 per se will save "some £85 million over 25 years" as mfraz has queried, or is it the reduction of an excessively complex business structure to something more practicable that might achieve this? Why should Microsoft get the credit for a business rationalisation programme undertaken by Wiltshire County Council?